Shocking Facts about the Pill

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Shocking Facts about the Pill

 

Since 1960, when the US Food and Drug Administration approved it

for contraception, the Pill has been one of the most popular methods

of preventing pregnancy. But in recent years, reminiscent of the off-

label uses of HRT, oral contraceptives have increasingly been

prescribed for adolescent girls and young women for noncontraceptive

purposes.

 

There is no doubt that doctors consider the Pill the best solution

to address a long list of young women's hormonal difficulties. This

day and age, there's a plethora of options: the combined low-dose

Pill made with oestrogen and progestin; the progestin-only mini-

Pill; and the three-year implant or injection.

 

Far beyond its initial purpose as a contraceptive drug for short-

term use, the Pill has become the darling of the medical world for

treating just about any hormonal problem a girl may have, and then

some. To date, the Pill is prescribed to help teenagers attack

acne, " regulate " their periods, eliminate painful periods and treat

PMS, endometriosis, migraines, ovarian cysts and polycystic ovaries.

Girls as young as thirteen are now prescribed the Pill for treating

acne.

 

The Pill has been touted by the medical profession as one of the

most effective and powerful preventive medicines around. But is it?

 

In December 2002, the US federal government published the 10th

edition of its biennial " Report on Carcinogens " , which is mandated

by Congress as a way for the government to help keep the public

informed about substances or exposures that are known to cause human

cancers. Added to the list of " known " human carcinogens were all

steroidal oestrogens used in oestrogen replacement therapy and oral

contraceptives.6 The gravity of this finding cannot be overstated:

all oestrogens have now been proven, unequivocally, to cause cancer!

 

To make matters even worse, norethisterone, the most common

progestin in progestin & endash;oestrogen combination oral

contraceptives, and other synthetic progestins used for injections

and implants were listed as known human carcinogens by the National

Institute of Environmental Health Sciences back in 1997. 7

 

Is it arrogance or just plain ignorance to believe that " Women are

often healthier if they are on the Pill " ? The fact is that the

ingredients of the Pill, whatever its formulation, are known human

carcinogens. How can any carcinogenic drug be deemed to be health

promoting? What cancers do these hormones cause? Studies have linked

oestrogens and progestins to breast, ovarian, endometrial, cervical,

skin, brain and lung cancers.

 

It is now recognised that, far from being safe and risk free,

these steroid hormones are, in reality, dangerous and potentially

life-threatening drugs that cause grave harm to women. Most women

taking the contraceptive pill have little idea about what dangerous

ingredients they are actually putting into their bodies, nor are

they knowledgeable about the potential side effects.

 

 

4. James-Enger, Kelly and Brown, Emma-Charlotte, " Which Pill Can

Stop Your

Period and Prevent Cancer? " , She Magazine (Australia), April 2002,

p. 107

5. ibid.

6. National Toxicology Program, " Report on Carcinogens " , Tenth

Edition,

http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov

7. Website http://ntp-

server.niehs.nih.gov/htdocs/8_RoC/RAC/Norethisterone.html

8. Wilks, John, A Consumer's Guide to the Pill and Other Drugs,

Freedom

Publishing Company Pty Ltd, Australia, 1996, p. 16